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2 Peter  


2 : 1 Butfalse prophets also arose among the people,just as there will be false teachers among you, who willsecretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Masterwho bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2 : 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truthwill be blasphemed.
2 : 3 Andin their greed they will exploit youwith false words.Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
2 : 4 For if God did not spareangels when they sinned, butcast them into helland committed them to chainsof gloomy darknessto be kept until the judgment;
2 : 5 if he did not spare the ancient world, butpreserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he broughta flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 : 6 if byturning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction,making them an example ofwhat is going to happen to the ungodly;
2 : 7 andif he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
2 : 8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day,he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);
2 : 9 thenthe Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials,and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
2 : 10 and especiallythose who indulgein the lust of defiling passion anddespise authority.Bold and willful, they do not trembleas they blaspheme the glorious ones,
2 : 11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.
2 : 12 But these, like irrational animals,creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
2 : 13 suffering wrong asthe wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasureto revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions,whilethey feast with you.
2 : 14 They have eyes full of adultery,insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have heartstrained in greed.Accursed children!
2 : 15 Forsaking the right way,they have gone astray. They have followedthe way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who lovedgain from wrongdoing,
2 : 16 but was rebuked for his own transgression;a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
2 : 17 These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm.For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.
2 : 18 For,speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barelyescaping from those who live in error.
2 : 19 They promise themfreedom,but they themselves are slavesof corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
2 : 20 For if,after they have escaped the defilements of the worldthrough the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome,the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 : 21 Forit would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back fromthe holy commandment delivered to them.
2 : 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them:Thedog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.